my sweet tooth

I have a sweet tooth, actually I have come to believe I have sweet teeth.

Several years ago I was in the doctors office for a yearly check up, she came in the exam room and these where her exact words:  "you know you carry your weight well".  We can all translate what this means, "your getting overweight".  So we began to talk about ways to lose weight, our conversation went like this:

Doc- eat fast food much?
me - nope
Doc- fried foods
me - some
Doc- soft drinks?
me - nope
Doc - sweet tea?
me - nope, unsweet
Doc - sweets?
me - long silence........
Doc - uh huh, this is where we need to work on your problem.

Ok, so truth be known my sweet tooth is bad.  At any dinner we have at church, I have a plate full of sweets afterwards.  My mother-in-law used to say at any given time I had 2-3 different types of ice cream in my freezer (and it was true).  My bowls of ice cream where HUGE.  I love Cadbury Eggs... the chocolate and Carmel ones, and then there is the mini eggs, oh my goodness....

I once sat down and was eating a piece of a "Mississippi mud cake" (like the pie just in cake form), and looked at my wife and said bet I could eat half this cake.  She dared me, so I did it..... yeah.  My sweet tooth is bad, really bad. 

So I had a recent appointment and my glucose was high, doc said you better get ahold of this NOW.  So I finally took him seriously and have removed most sweets that I consume out of the house.  I was at KMart Sunday and saw Cadbury mini eggs, do you know how hard it was to not get some... ugh.  There is currently no Ice cream in my freezer and no chocolate in my shelves.  I have found some recipes that allow me to make healthy snacks that curve the sweet tooth and are not loaded with sugar. 

And yet still, I have found myself craving chocolate.... there is no real substitute for it.

A very long lead in for this verse, but I believe because of my sweet tooth I GET IT>

^103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!  (Ps 119:103., NIV)

What if my craving for the Word was as strong as my craving for chocolate....?  What if I lay awake at night craving to know Him, like I craved Cadbury eggs?  What if the desire for the Bible was the same as Rocky Road ice cream. 

You know how when you get in your mind you want something specific, and nothing can take the place of it.... For example if you get in your mind you want a Dairy Queen Blizzard... then a sundae from McDonalds is not going to cut it.  So what if we got in our minds that there is nothing more precious to us than God's Love Letter, then nothing else will cut it.

May my desire for You be as strong as my sweet tooth...

Chris